Re: maxusers and random system freezes

Marc Recht wrote: Every now and this I hear people saying (mostly you :)) that some problems are KVA related or that the KVA must be increased. This makes me a bit curious, since I've never seen problems like that on Linux. It sounds for me, the not kernel hacker, a bit like something which

Re: vinum documentation

On Thu, 5 Dec 2002, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: When I ended up doing/'fixing ours, I just did the vinum start ... tried the vinum makedev before doing the start, and it gave an error, Really? What error? Don't recall, actually ... I may be mis-remembering though ... all I know is that

Re: Enabling root ftp access

Silly question. Using ProFTPD, how do I enable access by root via FTP? I need it only for short periods to be able to move and upload/update certain files. I understand the security risks and the server will only need to be up for brief periods of time. Anyone know how to do

Re: best way to back up entire disk?

Alex wrote: Dear/Beste Ray, Tuesday, December 3, 2002, 12:25:48 AM, you wrote: [please CC me, I'm not subscribed] I'm looking for a way to back up my entire system in such a manner that if it fails and I need to restore it, I would be able to do it to any arbitrary disk without

Re: Opera

On December 3, 2002 06:43 pm, Andrew Prewett wrote: On Dec 3 Scott Robbins wrote: On Tue, Dec 03, 2002 at 04:11:29PM -0700, Peter Milne wrote: I can't see one being connected to the other, but who knows? If opera uses SysV IPC (I don't now, newer used) maybe not cleaning up correctly

Two keyboards mouses with two monitors?

Hi, I was wondering if it's something I could do? Using a dualhead (or two different graphics cards), plug in two keyboards and two mouses... one as the standard console + X mode, and the second monitor and keyboard/mouse set to a X only connection? As if I had two computers? Any clues on how

Re: run command on logfile before it's rotated

On Thu, 2002-12-05 at 01:02, Nathan Kinkade wrote: On Wed, Dec 04, 2002 at 10:51:43PM +0100, Thomas von Hassel wrote: I've got my system set up to rotate the maillog every day at midnight. What do i do if i want to run a command on the logfile just before it's rotated ? /thomas --

Re: Mail server howto question

on 12/4/02 7:48 PM, Lord Raiden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok, this is kind of a two part question. So here goes. 1st, I need to build a mail server that does both pop and smtp. 2nd, I need that server to be able to do pop before smtp authentication for relaying. Anyone got a good tutorial

Re: Which one is the right FTP?

On Thu, 2002-12-05 at 06:41, Lord Raiden wrote: Ok, got a slight dilemma. Installed ProFTPD just a few days back and was trying to fire up my FTP server using /usr/libexec/ftpd. Well low and behold, that's still the default FTP server for Freebsd. I thought that when you installed

Re: Enabling root ftp access

Comment out root in the file /etc/ftpusers - aW Silly question. Using ProFTPD, how do I enable access by root via FTP? I need it only for short periods to be able to move and upload/update certain files. I understand the security risks and the server will only need

Re: Which one is the right FTP?

cat /usr/ports/ftp/proftpd/pkg-plist - aW Ok, got a slight dilemma. Installed ProFTPD just a few days back and was trying to fire up my FTP server using /usr/libexec/ftpd. Well low and behold, that's still the default FTP server for Freebsd. I thought that

Re: Mail server howto question

http://www.au.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/mail.html - aW Ok, this is kind of a two part question. So here goes. 1st, I need to build a mail server that does both pop and smtp. 2nd, I need that server to be able to do pop before smtp authentication

Setting LOCALE

I've set some locales but get an error when running a certain script: wash@ns2 ('tty') ~ 54 - ma perl: warning: Setting locale failed. perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings: LC_ALL = en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE = ja_JP.UTF-8, LANG = en_US.UTF-8 are supported and

Re: What happens at shutdown

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 (12.04.2002 @ 1049 PST): Stephen Montgomery-Smith said, in 0.5K: When the system shuts down (like for example if I press CTRL-ALT-DEL), do the running processes receive SIGTERM before or after all the filesystems have been umounted? Would this

Re: people communicate in the strangest ways...

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 (12.04.2002 @ 1843 PST): rockneybot said, in 0.4K: Hello. My name is he-who-cannot-be-named. I'm being held hostage in a small cave in Nicaragua. I've constructed a rudimentary computing device out of forks, rocks, and some copper wire.

Re: people communicate in the strangest ways...

On Wednesday 04 December 2002 10:28 pm, Adam Weinberger wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 (12.04.2002 @ 1843 PST): rockneybot said, in 0.4K: Hello. My name is he-who-cannot-be-named. I'm being held hostage in a small cave in Nicaragua. I've constructed a

hi there =)

Hi I just have a problem... I'm behind an http proxy, it's 10.1.1.1 port 8080.. this is the scan of the proxy: bash-2.05b$ nmap -P0 10.1.1.1 Starting nmap V. 3.00 ( www.insecure.org/nmap/ ) Interesting ports on (10.1.1.1): (The 1585 ports scanned but not shown below are in state: filtered) Port

Re: Which one is the right FTP?

At 8:12 AM on Thursday 5 December 2002, Akifyev Sergey wrote: cat /var/db/pkg/proftpd-*/+CONTENTS | fgrep -v @ should list all files in package, with path relative to prefix cat /var/db/pkg/proftpd-*/+CONTENTS | fgrep @cwd will give you the default prefix for a package.

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